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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1878-05-14

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r to fte .nrtrrtrar. .iv k mm mm mm mm mm mm 1 ma mm t mm mm VOL. XXXIX. COLUMBUS, TUESDAY, MAY 14. 1878. NO. 113. SIEBERT & LILLEY, Blank Book MASDF.KITCBEltS, Priii tfti-s.Mluders, Stationers amd f .eval Hlunk Publishers. i fOLL uii or Ready-Wade BLANK BOOKS Kept constantly on hand. BOOK BINDING Of every description, by IneEdl tlon or Single Volume. Optra HtMe apt ly Building (Up Stain), Ibiuh PnuBj. Rodhiy Foos. PILLARS & FOOS, Attorneys-at-Law, Boom Ho. S, Pioneer Blocs, feb9 dtf wtt Q1.TJMBCH, OHIO. SPRING AND SUMMER Woolens GEO. T. DUVALL, Merchant Tailor! is7 aimia nieu sr. jiMORNEYS. W. NEIL OENNISON, &ttorja.y.atXjaw AND NOTABT I? TJ U H e . Collections promptly attended to. Office In Pioneer Block. novlO tf o. Z. roa-iuivtun.; ATT ORNE Y-A.T-I AW. HO. 71 NORTH HIUH ST., Benin a Farnon Btonlfi Oolnmbite.O, XI. O. MRICOH, A. ttoruo ynt UnWi 23 E. State St , Columbus, 0., (First Bailding vest of City Ball). ' A., -Hi. Oil tHillTON, AHorneya t-Ij aw, 14 Pioneer BlucB, tolambii.. Collections promptly attended to. roylldAffly lull .'? I IHgli, Pearl and ('Impel St.. C0M1.T. 1. w. raANOlaco. COMLY & FRANCISCO, FUBLlflUEttB AKD rROPBIETOBS. A. W. FBANCIflCO, Heneral Manager Jncfiea't'ons for the Tenneitee and Ohio Va'ky ant Lake Segion Northerly winds, ailing barometer, cooler, cloudy and rainy weather, prcctfinQ an area of loin pressure. Gold closed in New York yesterday at 100. Is .pursuance of some kind of compromise made on Sunday, the appropriation bill was disposed of yesterday morning, and the Senate adopted the House resolution resoinding the resolution, providing for adjournment at 8J a.m. So we have the General Assembly with us still. The Senate adopted a resolution providing for adjournment on Wednesday, which Is now in the hands of a House committee, and may not be acted on uutil the Senate disposes of the redisricting question. The House tedistrioting bill was read the seoond time in the Senate, referred, reported back, and set for third reading to-day. A motion to make it the special order failed to receive the vote necessary to give it force, but it received nineteen votes, one more than the number necessary to pass the bill. The Democratic Senators held a caucus last night, which was in the nature of an exceedingly olose corporation. They remained in BesBlon till ten o'clock, not even admitting Democratic reporters, and came out looking like a funeral procession. Ther declined to impart the scorns with which hey had been wrestling but substantially admitted that' there had been trouble. Some of them attempted to leave the imnression that nothing had been done, while others indicated that action had been taken which did not please all. A leak wss discovered at a late hour, how ever, and It was ascertained to a reason able degree of authenticity that the can ens atrreed upon changing three districts in the bill as passed by the House, so as to accommodate certain Senators and make fourteen or fifteen Democratic districts out of the twenty in the State. The gerryman der was gerrymandered. Fayette county was taken from the Hocking-Fairfield' Vinton-Boss-Fike Fayette district (the Tenth in the House bill) and added to the Fourth Green, Clarke, Champaign, Logan and Union. Gallia and Meigs, associated with Scioto, Jackson and Law renoe in the House bill, were traded to the Tenth district "for Boss and Pike. The three districts referred to stand, after revision by the Senate caucus, as follows: Fourth Greene, Clarke, Champaign, Logan, Union and Fayette. Tenth Hocking, Fairfield, Vinton Gallia and Meigs. Twelfth Scioto, Jackson, Lawrence, Pike and Boss. It ahonld be stated that the numbers of the districts were changed by the House in passing the bill agreed upon by the caucus of the Democratic members of that body. This explanation is made to explain the disagreement between the num bers above given and those heretofore published. Damaged by ibe Frost. Milwatjkii!, Wis., May 12 There ' wbb a heavy frost throughout the State last night. Considerable damage was done to the corn, potatoes and garden stun, jsome counties also report great in jury to the fruit, BY TELEGRAPH TO TBS OBIO STATS JOURNAL WASHINGTON. Congressional Encouragement of the Bell Punch. Senate Discussion of the Post- office Appropriation Bill. Potter's Great in the Two-Horse Act House. Resolution for tie Investigation of Florida and Louisiana. Garfield and Ilule Make Pol ler's Path Bugged. The Democrats Refuse to Admit Amend' ments Extending Examination, The Bepublicans Embarrass the Bes olution by Breaking a Quorum. CONTESTED ELECTION CASE. Washington, D. C, May 13 Tie House oommittee on Eleotions has ordered the majority and minority reports in the South Carolina contested eleotion case of Richardson, Democrat, v. Rainy, Republican, sitting member, 10 be presented to the House Wednesday next. The majority report favors a new election; the minority declares the preeent incumbent entitled to the seat. XLVIti CouKrea. Viral Beeelon. BENATK. , Mr. Johnson introduced a bill to lew. bv the Mcffett bell punch, tax on liquors in all places in the District where intoxicants are sold by the drink. Referred. Mr. Merrill presented the petition of half a dozen mechanics of BoBtoo, favoring the repeal of the eight hour law. They declare it is unjust to pay workmen, employed by the Government, as much for eight hours work as other workmen receive for ten hours. Referred. Mr. Gonoyer, from the committee on Post- offices and Post Roads, reported back the amendment to the Postoffice Aopropriation bill, authorizing the Postmaster' General to advertise for carrying malls between San Francisco and Hongkong, touching at Yokohama, and pay therefor not exceeding $30 per mile. The amendment is similar to that recently reported by the committee, pre-viding for mail steamship service between New York, New Orleansnnd Brazil. It was referred. The amendment also provides for a mail Bteamship service between San Francisco and Sidney, Australia, touching at the Sandwich Islands and New Zealand, at a cOBt not to exceed $30 per mile. At tne expiration or tne morning nour, the Postoffice Appropriation bill was taken up. The President pro tern, laid before tne Senate a communication from the Secretary of War, calling attention to the fact that the payment of claims for bounty and arrears of pay due discharged soldiers, will cease the 30th of June next,unlers the necessary money be appropriated. Referred. The amendments of the committee were agreed to as follows : Increasing the appro priation lor preparation and puotication oi postoBice maps from $25,000 to $40,000; providing postmasters who make false returns be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year or punished by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of tbe 0urt the House provided for the punishment of such offenses by a fine not less than $50, nor moie than SaOO increasing lb appropria tion for compensation to clerks iu tbe post-offices from $3,440,000 to $3,500,000; for the payment of letter carriers from $1,865,000 to $2,000,000; for the transportation ot mails by railroad Iron) $9,10,000 to $9,635,000. A long discussion took place upon the amendment in regard to the compensation of the Superintendent of the postal railway service. Tne House ot representatives pro vided that he should receive $2500 a year, with traveling and incidental expenses while actually traveling in the service of not exceeding five dollars per day, and the Senate committee submitted an amendment so as to read while actually employed iu the service, instead of while actually traveling in the service. The amendment was agreed to yeas 32, nays Id. While the vote was being taken, Mr. Dor-sey announced that his colleague (Mr. Garland) had been called home by the illness of one of his sous, and since be had left the city, be (Horsey ) Pad learned ot tne deatn ot the ton. The Senate committee reported an amend ment to strike out tbe clause directing the Postmaster Ueneral to readiust tne compen sation to be paid railroads for transporting mans atter tn. nrst ot July next, oy reauo-ing the compensation five per cent, per annum. Agreed to. The amendment increasing the appropria tion for compensation to tbe railway post-office clerks from $1,275,000 to $1,325,000 was ngreed to; also, an amendment Btriking out the clause providing postal clerks, route agents and mall route messengers Bnall not be requtrea to wear unttorms otner tuan a cap or badge. Other amendments, increasing the appropriation for route agents from $1,020,000 to $1,030,000, and increasing the appropriation to be paid out of the Treasury from $4,106,-274 to $4,960,274, to supply deficiencies shonld the revenues of tbe Department be Insufficient, were agreed to. Mr. Maxev. from the committee on Post- offices and Post Roads, submitted an amend ment already published, providing for a semi-monthly mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil, steamers leaving New Orleans and New York once every two weeks. nr. gdmunas raises tne point oi oruer mat this amendment was contrary to the 29th rule, not germain, and proposed general legislation.A long discussion followed, Messrs. Maxey, Davis of West Virginia and Ferry advocating the amendment, and Messrs. Thurman, Bailey and others opposing on different grounds. in tne course oi tne discussion, a letter was read from the manager of an existing Enzlish line saving tbev could not compete for the subsidy and did not want adverse legislation. Mr. tiiaine said it tnat letter was not cheek. he ditnotknow what it was. Pending discussion on Mr. Bdmttnds'B point ot order, tne senate adjourned. HODSG. The vote by which the main question was ordered on tbe bill to regulate inter-State commerce, was reconsidered and the bill went over until to-morrow. Mr. Potter, sb a question of privilege, presented the following preamble and resolution:Whbhbas, The State of Maryland has, by its Legislature, formally declared that due effect was not given to the electoral vote cast by the State on the 6th day of December, 1876, by reason of fraudulent returns in the elec oral votes from the States of Florida and Louisiana; and whereas, an affidavit by Samuel B. McLln, Chairman of the Board of State Canvas ere of the State of Florida, for the election held in that State in November, 1676, for election of President end Vice President, has been made public, alleging false and fraudulent retnrns of the votes at such election in that Btate, whereby the ch 'ice of the people of llut State was an nulled and reversed, and that the action of the Board of Btate Canvassers in making such returns, was influenced by the con- auct ana promises ot tion. uawara r . noyes, now Minister to the Government of France; and whereas, it is alleged that conspiracy existed in the State of LoniBiana,wbereby the Republican vote iu all the precincts of the parish of East Feliciana and in some precincts of West Feliciana at the general election in novemoer, 1H7B, was purposely witnneia from the polls to afford a pretext for eic!u sion by the Returning board of that State of th vote cast in those prtciucts for electors of President ana vice rreiiaent, ana tnat James E. Anderson, supervisor of registration of East Feliciana and D. A. Weber, su pervisor of registration in the parish of West Frdiciana. in that State in furtherance of that conspiracy falsely protested that the election in such precincts had not been fair and free, and that the State Returning board falsely and fraudulently excluded the votes of saia precincts, ana Dy means tnereot ana oi otner laise ana irauauient actions Dy tne said Returning Board, tnecnoice of tne people of that State was annulled and reversed, and that such return ot said Weber and Anderson was encouraged by the assurances of Hon. John Sherman, Secretary ot the Treasury of the United States; and whereas, the gravity of these charges, the nature of evidence upon which thev are reported to be based, and the official dignity aua position oi tne personB namea in connection with said frauds, make it proper that the same shall be inquired into, to theend tbat tne nooor ot tne nation may do vinaicatea and the truth as to sueh election made known; therefore, lie it Resolved,. That a select committee, consisting of eleven members of this House, De appointed to inquire into tne atoresaid allegation as to the conduct of the persona in office, in respect to said election, and cite the auegea tame ana. irauauient canvass ana ie. turn of votes by State, countv, parish and precinct officers in said States of Louisi ana ana fiouaa, ana into an iacts, wuicn, in tne juagmeni oi saia committee, are connected therewith. and that said committee, for the purpose of execnting this resolution, shall nave power to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths and to take testimony, and in their discretion to detail sub-committees, with line fu.l authority of said committee in every particular, and with power to sit in Florida and Louisiana, which sub-committees Bhall De committees ot tnis House, ana tne cnair-man thereof shall be authorized to adminis ter oaths; that said committee andsub-committees may employ stenographers, be accompanied each by a deputysergeant-alarms, and may sit during the Bessiousof this House and during the vacation, and that said cimmittee proceed on this inqniry and nave leave to report at any time. The nreamble and resolution having been read, Mr. Oooger said they did not preseBt a question of privilege, and that the powers pro posed in the resolution coma not ne given bv a mere majority vote, but would require a suspension of the rules. , air. rotter saia one wouia suppose that it there was any subject which should be en titled to preference iu this House in respect of order of business, it was the Bubject brought to its notice by the memorial of a sovereign State, touching the official conduct of the high officers of the Government and relating to fraud alleged to have occurred changing the result of an election of tne highest officers ot this Uovernment. Mr. Conger Has the memorial of the State of Marvland been committed to the gentleman from New York, so that he has any possession of it in which to offer such a resolution ? Mr. Potter I am now speaking only to the question of order. Later on, if I have an opDortunity to sav anything. I shall be able to make an answer to the inquiry which tne gentleman has just put to me. now, as to the Question of order, it seems to me that to state the case is to argue it. it; for reasons that appear on the face of thiB resolution, this inquiry is not privileged, then nothing can, by its nature, be privileged. If the House of Representatives has the right to give preference to tbe consideration of any subject, a subject of tbe magnitude of this bne, to which tbe resolution relates, ought certainly to bave such preference. Mr. Hale argued trom tbe llulea and man ual that the resolution did not present a question of privilege. If thB resolution proposed, or was intended to subvert tbe accepted result in tbe Presidential election, thon there mieht be Borne claims thai it did pre sent a question of privilege, but as a mere expesssion of opinion, it did not present any such question. Mr. uarneid also argued against tne resolution beinir a privileged one. He said : The gentleman - from New York oases his claim that it is a privileged question on the fact that the memorial whicb it recites is a memorial from a Bovereign State and is therefore entitled to a very high place in the consideration of this bouse. I think the gentleman from New York was unfortunate in planting his case on that idea. The States of this Union are represented by members who are sent here to speait ana vote for their States, and iu no other way whatever can a State of this Onion be heard on this floor, except under the rule (which is a recent mooiticationj mat on uonaay morn ing s call, joint resolutions oi state ana territorial Legislatures may be introduced for Drlntincr and reference. The speaker Would the gentleman from Ohio deny to the State the right of petition as given in the Constitution ? Mr. Garfield Ob, a State has of course the right of petition. The Speaker A memorial is a petition, and is nrovided for in the Constitution. wherein it is stated that Congress shall make no law abridging tbe right of the people to petition the Uovernment for a redress of erievances. Mr. Garfield The Speaker's reference to the right of petition is entirely unnecessary. Tbat Question was discussed on this very Maryland resolution, and everybody here granted perfect and unquestioned right of peuiiuu, UUb tut, riui. ui aunuu uwo wu iu.d floor is quite a different thing, and the ques tion ot wnetuer it rises to tne oiauuv oi a nrivllflired aueBtion. denends upon tbe right of action which somebody can demand of tbe House. This is a question ot privilege without doubt, provided the mover of it alleges he proposes to follow it up as a matter ot impeaenment. it ne says mat mis is a proceeding intenaea to pave tne way to impeachment, then doubtless it may be a question of privilege. If he says thiB is a proposition by the House to raiseand determine the qneslion of the title of th. present Chief Magistrate to ine oiuce wmcu ue noma, men I answer that the qestion has been determined by the joint voice of the two houses of Congress and it is beyond the reach of tbis House. If, again, the object of the resolution is merely to organize a committee for oampaign pnrposes, to make campaign literature for next fall, then the exigencies of a political party have never yet risen to the dignity of questions of privilege. Furthermore, there is in this resolution a proposition that the committee shall have the right to sit in the recess. Neither of those two propositions can be adopted by a majority vote, and I thereupon reserve that part of tbe order until the opportunity shall arise. I am glad, after the lotg threat has been hanging over the country, that these gentlemen, in tbe language of Shakespeare, have "left off their damnable faces and begun," and now let the play go on. Applause on the Republican side. Mr. Mills argued that the resolution did not present a question of privi ege. He could find no shelter for it under the Constitution, unless nnder that nower ot the Con atitution which gave to the House the right to originate an impeachment against the President for Hiirh crimes and misdemean ors, but in order to make it a question of privilege under tne constitutional provision, the resolution must coutain a charge against the President of sufficient gravity to justify the House la putting him on trial for lm-neachment. All the frauds alleged in tbe resolution had been once investigated, and that a comnetent body under the Constitu tion bad declared the present Incumbent of tbe . Presidency io ne duly elected nnder tbe Constitution and laws, and that was the end of it. Tbe power no longer existed in the Fortyfourth Congress, and any attempt of the Fortyfifih Congrats to exercise such power over the Fresideottal election was usurpation. This Congress bad no power at all over that question. Whatever power the Constitution vested in either Congress on tbe subiect, had been exercised by the Fortyfourth Conirress. and there re mained not a shadow of right on the part of in is uongresa to exercise sucn power. t-The only power which this Bouse had over the President was the power to impeach him for some crime and misdemeanor, which he himself bad committed, but not for frauds which others had committed in bringing him to the Presi dency. If this House bad tbe power to investigate the question as to whether Hayes oDtainea tne rresiaency, it also had tne ngnt to investigate the means by which JameB K. Polk had obtained the Presidency in bis time, and it might go back to the days of ueorge Washington ana bring tbe Iact ot mi eleotion before the people. He repeated that any attempt on the part of this House to investigate and to undo what had been done by the Fortyfourth Congress in declar ing who was President, was nothing short of usurpation, Applause on the Kepublican side Mr. Cox of New York read an extract from the decision of the Electoral Commission in the case, and charged Mr. Garfield, one of the Commissioners, with having either a convenient conscience, or con venient logic. It seemed to him (Cox) tbat whatever steps might be taken to reach tbat great transaction, tne gentleman trom umo neia tney were ouisiae tne record aliunde. So far as the question of privilege was concerned, tbis was a question of high privilege Hon constat that it must lead to impeaenment.Mr. Potter held the privilege asked for was only the privilege of having now con sidered the resolution presented; the privilege to which the resolution was entitled arose from tbe fact that it had been set in motion, first, by the public formal action of a sovereign State; and Becond, from the nature or tbe Bubject matter to which it referred The gentleman on the other side had been quick to declare that if he (Potter) would say tbat the purpose ot the resolution was to impeach and unseat the President of the United States, they would admit it wss in order. That he declined to declare. If the construction, given to the rule by the gentleman from Maine (Hale) was right, that the limitation of the privilege in reference to the election of President l inquiry in reference to his election before be is seated, or with a view to unseating him, that was a construction which would forever prohibit tbe House from inquiring into the frauds that had been successfully committed and which had come to Knowledge atter their succesBtul accom plishment. If there was anything in tbe nature of fraud that made it desirable to be inquired into, it was when the fraud had been successful, and if the House refused to iuquire because the frauds had succeeded. that tbe commission of eucb frauds would be encouraged, and the failure to investigate, so far from securing, would jeopardize the peace and security ot tne country. The Speaker The issue involved is a new one in the history of this country, and an examination of- the basis on which the preamblo and resolution are introduced is proper. The Legislature of Maryland passed a joint resolution touching the subject treatea ot in the preamble and the resolution just read. A copy of that resolution of Marvland. has been remitted to tbis House and has been referred to a commitee, and is within the knowledge of the members of the House, in which the following langnage is used: "That full effect has not been given to the electoral vote cast by the State of Maryland on the 6th day of November, 1876, by reason ot fraudulent returns made from other States and allowed to be counted provisionally by the Electoral Commissioners and subject tojudicial revision." It further alleges that the returns from Louisiana and Florida, which were cast for the preseut occupant of the Presidential Chair, wero fraudulent and void. Hero is an appeal of a State of this Union to the Federal legislative power, tor the correction of a high grievance, said to hare been committed in the States of Florida and Louisiana, against the rights of the State of Maryland, in baving, by iraud in said states ot f lorida and Louisiana, produced a different result in the election of President and Vice President from that actually decreed by the people themselves at the polls. W hetber these allegations can be sustained by proof, it is not tor the Obair to consider. It is enougn lor ihe Chair to know they come from a power whicb. within limits, is recognized as sov ereign bv the Constitution, and tbat the issue involved runs to tue weuare oi tbe people ot the States. Nor is it within the reach of propriety for the Chair to express an opinion as to how far such investi gation should go in order to reach the facts, nor what limits should be set upon It. A higher privilege than the one here involved and broadly and directly presented as to tbe rightful occupancy of the Chief Executive chair of the Government, and as the connec tion ot high uovernment officials Willi tne frauds alleged, tbe Cbair is unable to conceive. The Chair finds enumerated among the questions of privilege set down in the manual tne louowtng: Election oi President. The Chair therefore rules that the preamble and resolution embrace questions of privilege of the highest character and the Chair recognized the right of the geutleman from New York to answer the same. Ap plause ou the Democratic side. The other points ure ot couse neld in reserve. Mr. Conger appealed from the decision of tue Uhalr. Mr. Potter moved to lay the appeal on the table, and the motion was agreed to yeas 1KB, nays luo a party vote, with tne exception of Messrs Fnrt, Mitchell and Butler, who voted with the Democrats, and Messrs. Buckner and Mills, who voted with the Re publicans. Mr. Reagan, desiring to justify his vote in support of tbe resolution, stated, while he agreed with Ins colleague (Mills) that tbe revival of the Presidential question could not be had by the House, the resolution in alleging that great frauds had been perpe trated raised a question of the highest privilege. Mr. Conger raised the point of order, that as the resolution gave a committee unusual powers to sit during recess, to report at any time, and for the chairman of sub-commit tees to administer oaths, it could not be adopted by a mere majority vole; also, that the resolution provided for the expenditure of money, and it must be first considered in committee ot tue w noie. Tbe Speaker ruled that as to the right of the chairman of the sub committees to ad minister oaths, that was a matter to be de cided by tbe committee itself. If it was contrary to law, then it did not matter whether tne power was given oy a iwotniras vote or bv a majority vote. After argument as to the rule applying to tbe case, in which Messrs. 1 hompson. But ler. Savler and Coswell participated, tbe Speaker overruled the point of order as to tne power ot tne committee to sit during recess.The next point discussed was on the right of the chairman of the sub-committees to administer oaths. Mr. Conger said the statute prescribed who might administer oaths, including tbe chairman of the committee, and the rules declared who should be chairman tbe first named member of the committee, and in bis absence tbe next in order, and so on. The House could not by a simple resolution say differently from the roles, that the chairman ot a suD-commutee was toe cn airman of the committee. The Sneaker overruled the point of order on the ground that if tbe House should au-authorize the appointment of sub committees in the manner provided, the chairman of such sub-committees would nave power un der the very words of the statute to administer oaths. He also overruled the point as to the expenditure of money. Mr. Garfield then made the point of order that it required a twothirds vote to give a committee power to report at any lime. Tbe Sneaker sustained the noint. whereuo- on Mr. Potter struck out that part of tbe resolution. Mr. Hale asked Mr. Potter to yield to him to oner an amendment. Mr. Potter said be introduced the tesolu tion at the request of bis political associates made this morning a gentleman wboee wish he did not feet at liberty to refute. The resolution contemplates nothing but an inquiry into the facta of the elec oral votes of Floiida and Louisiana and into tbe paitici-pation of officers of the Government in connection with tbealleged frauds there. What can be done alter the inquiry is completed what ought to be done should be determined only aflrr tne inquiry nas Deen bad. Mr. Potter then moved the previous quel tion, saying the House could determine by its vote on that motion whether the matter shall be further dehated. Mr. Hale said he had an amendment to offer, which was clearly germain to tbe reso. IntioD, and be submitted tbat in all fairness he should be permuted to offer it. He hoped the gentleman ( Potter) would not seek here and now to stifle further debate or to prevent the KepuU'ican side ot the House trom oner ing amendments tbat would make tbe iu vestigation more exhaustive and searching He therefore asaed the gentleman to yield to bim to oner biB amendment. Mr. Potter I will yield to the gentleman to state tbe nature of his amendment. It may be tbat in the form of an amendment, he merely wants to eet in a speech. Mr. Hale Tbe better way is for the gen tleman to allow tne amendment to De read. Mr. Potter The gentleman from Maine is exceedingly familiar with parliamentary law and is able to state the nature of his amendment, and when he states it, then I will allow it to be onerea. Mr. Hale Will the gentleman let the amendment be read? Then he will understand what it is. I will send it to the Clerk's desk. Shouts of "No," "No," from the Democratic side.l Mr. Potter Tbe gentleman from Maine can answer it he chooses, and if he refuses to answer and insista on giving me an answer on a quire ot foolscap, then 1 say it is not an appeal to my courtesy as I ought to yield to. For aught I know, it may refer to other Slates than tbe States of Florida and Louisiana. Mr Hale Then the gentleman seems to limit his investigation to tne selected states, and will not ulluw it to go outside. Is that the reason why he will not admit my amendment ( 1 tell the gentleman plainly, my amendment is not confined to the Stale! of Florida and Louisiana. Mr. Potter Now I have got, at last, an answer to my inquiry, and I decline to yield ihe floor to the amendment. If frauds were attempted in Florida and in Louisiana, they were carried out successfully and became operative. It tbe subiect of tbe amendment of the gentleman from Maine is to show there were frauds in South Carolina, by which the electoral vote of that State was carried for Hayes, when it ought to have been counted for Tilden, then I Bhall be prepared to answer as to an amendment of that sort; but tbe entleman from Maine will not venture to eclare anything of that kind. Mr. Hale In other words, you mean to say that any frauds that apply on one side are to be locked into here and tbat any frauds committed by the gentleman's own party are to be eicluded. Is that it 7 Applause on the Republican side. Mr. Potter Ob. no. The world of wrong is very wide. If the gentloman wishes to inquire into matters of moral delinquency outside of Florida and Louisiana, I do not object. Let him introduce bis resolution for that purpose and have himself put at the head of the committee and go into tht investigation. Applause on the Democratic side I seek nothing of the kind. I am not aiming at persons. I desire to ascertain if fraud in tbe electoral vote of those States was reallv perpetrated, and if so. how it wbb perpetrated, in order that such frauds may be preventea nereatier. Mr. Hale Ana tne gentleman aenies any -Attempt at investigation where there are clearly Bhown frauds, the oldest in Ameri can history, perpetrated by bis own party in nan a dozen otner states., ne reiuses to let tbat investigation go to bis committee.Ml'. Tottor I will rote for any lrlni) of an investigation you seek, but the amendment you propose is not germain to this resolution and is intended to prevent effectual investigation. Mr. Hale But the gentleman will not let it go to the committee of which he is the head. I do not ask for the appointment of a committee with a majority from this side of Ibe House, but I ask that the luquny which the gentleman's resolution proposes, be SB sweeping as me country uesires it io De. iir. rotter wen, letiue gentleman trom Maine sweep the dirt for himself. Laugh ter on the Democratic side Mr. Hale Tbe gentleman trom INew lorK evidently does not mean to sweep. Laughter on tbe Republican side. Mr. Potter No, not with the inefficient broom vou would like used. Mr. Garheld took the floor, but was met with calls to order on tbe Democratic side. Mr. Potter said: I yield to any one of the visiting statesmen. Laughter. Mr. Garfield 1 understood the gentleman from New York to say when he was first up that he was not seeking to investigate the Presidential title, but to investigate a question of Iraud in tbe Presidential election. Now, if that be so, I can only say that the gentleman's last position that he will not investigate any alleged fraud in any of the States unless the vote of that State was necessary to put the President in the Presidential chair, is in conflict with that idea. It seems to me my friend utterlv chances his Dosition now to one of seekiog to get at the Presidential title. If be is seeking to get at the question ot fraud in the Presidential election! then he will get, I believe, the unanimous vote of this side of tbe House to pass his resolution, proviaea he will enlarge it to take in all the other cases where there is a real bona fide allegation and belief by a large body of the people of fraud, fully as great as anything he believes to have existed in Florida and Louisiana. If be will enlarge his resolution in that way, it will have my vote and the rote of every man on this Bide of the House, several Republicans "Every man." But if he elects a certain narrow limit of alleged fraud, whicb, in case it is true, can only revert to the political advantage of one political party, and not to the general advantage of truth in the Republic, e will ocoupy a position which all honorable men give to narrow, partisan, partial, unjustinvestigatlon applause on the Republican Bide, and therefore I ask him to let the amendment be offered. Mr. Potter The gentleman from Ohio says I have changed my ground and that 1 want to attack the presidential title. Not at all. Whatever may happen as to tbe Presidential title as the result of this inquiry, does not concern me now. I have said and I repeat, that I bave no purpose of destroying it. He says if I only want to in-veitigate election frauds,the olhsr side of the House would be glad to go iuto a general and sweeping investigation, that is.one so general vuui. n woum never eveniuuio iu uy uiniuiu-ationatall.butihereis between these two ex tremes a very obvious distinction I seek to investigate not with a view to disturbing the rretident or wltb any other view to tne ois- turnance ot settled results. 1 Beea io investigate frauds which have become operative, wmch were successfully carried our. which were effective and which are brought to our notice by the memorial of a sovereign State of this Union. These are just exactly in two States and no more. Therefore an investigation looking bevond these two States wouiu not De germain to me resolution anu wouia ne ot no practical etlect. Mr. Conger took the floor, but was met with loud shouts of "order." "order." from the Democratic side. He, however, succeeded in saying that it the other side would not permit his side to take any part in framing the resolu ion of inquiry the Democratic side might pass its resolution it it could. Applause on the Republican side. Mr. Potter The nentleman from Michi gan is kind. We can do that without bis permission, but if he will offer a resolution to investigate any frauds that he may allege, we will be more liberal than he proposes, and It will receive the votes of this side of tbe House also. ' Mr. Hale I made my proposition in good faith. Gentlemen on the other aide have declined it. . Now let them go on by themselves.Mr. Butler Will tbe gentleman from New York (Potter) allow me to add to bis resolution the words South Carolina? Mr. Garfield Mississippi, also. Mr. Potter No. Mr. Sneaker, for the slm. pie reason no frauds in South Carolina or MiBBisuppt became operative. Tbe distinc- tion is obvious. I must now insist on the previous aueBtion. Tbe Republican Bide of the House here upon resorted to the parliamentary exutdi- ent of withholding tbeir rotes, so that when tbe question came to be tested by tellers tnere were only lib aye3 and 1 no no quo-rum voting. Mr. Potter mcrcd a call of the House, which was made, and ail the Republicans answered to tneir names, so tbat no timber proceedings nnder the call could be texen. Mr. Potter then asked the Soeaker wheth er if the Housb adjourned now, toil question wouia come up as unonisnea business. The Speaker informed him it would remain before tbe House until disposed of. Mr. Conger and other Republicans called upon the democratic side not to show signs of weakness so early. The taunt was answered just as defiantly, and it was intimat ed mat me question wouia remain Detore iub nuuae uniu mere were enougn uemo. orats present to constitute a quorum with out the aid of the Republican vote. This will require the presence of at least thirty more Democrats than were in the House to day. Mr. Potter moved tbat the House adjourn, and the vote was taken by yeas and nays. Pending the announcement of the vote. Mr. Hewitt, from the committee on Appropriations, reported the Army Appropriation bill and it was referred to the committee of the Whole. Mr. Stephens, Chairman of the committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, reported a Din prohibiting the lurtber coinage ot mree ana nve cent silver pieces, ana declaring subsidiary silver coin a legal tender in amounts not exceeding $20. passed. The SDeaker. nrior to announcing tbe re. suit of the vote said: The Chair announces with great sorrow the death of JoseDh Henrv. an American whose scientifio attainments are world wide and who has devoted a life time to tbe Interests of Bcience, regardless of personal comfort or emoluments. The vote was then announced yeas 118, nayB liu, and tne House adjourned. THE TURF. Tbe Kacee at Lexington, Kentacny, xemeruay. Lexington, Ky., May 13. The largest attendance ever knowu on- the Kentucky Association course assembled to-day to witness the first race between Ten Broeck, Vera Cruz, Aristides, Leonard and Bill Bass. Every available space of room was. crowded to its utmost capacity. Before the race Ten Broeck was decidedly the favorite, with Vera Cruz as second choice. Just before the race the pools sold : Ten Broeck, $56, Vera Cruz, $44; Bill Bass, $14; Leonard and Aristides in the field at $20. Mr. Harper wished to draw Ten Broeck before the race, but yielded to the wish of friends to let him start. A good start was had, with Bill Bass in the lead. This he soon surrendered to Leouaul, who maintained that poeition to the half-mile, with tbe other four following well in hand. From the half-mile up the hill and down the homestretch the horses put in their best efforts, Leonard leading. Ten Broeck closed up, however, parsing him and winning by a length under whip and spur, Leonard made an excellent race, being a close second. Aristides and Leonard showed lame after tbe race. Vera Cruz waB third. Tim 248. The second race, Longfellow BtakeB, for three-year-olds, the get of Longfellow, F. B. Harper adds $300, no entrance fee, closed March 1 with five entrances; mile heats. This race was well contested, th. first and second horses showing that they are first-class race homes. The time compares favorably with that of Ten Broeck in the first race. SCUUABV. Dave Moore 1 1 Alert 2 2 Lucille 3 a Time 1 63, 1:644. Third race, colt stake?, for two-year- olde; $50 entrance, $25 forfeit, $250 added, cecond colt to Bave his stake; one- half mile, closed Marcbjl, with fourteen entries; ten started. Thia race waa easily won, and failed to create much interest : George Cadwnllader's cb. c. Kinkova, by Waverly 1 R B. Hunt's br. o. Stilton, by imp Btrocht- no , A. Butord's b. c. Goodnight, by Knuuirer... 3 McGrath's Thornton, bv Tom Bowline e G. w. Bowen A Co.'s Aleo Grant, by imp. u euHi.nui ................................... v B. G. Thomaa'e Gilv Merchant, br Alarm 0 J. A. Gnnetead'a Athel Stare, by John Mor- can 0 D. Swieert'a Druid, bv Flanerold 0 J. G. Blow's Gabriel, by Alarm 0 Time-Mi. It has been raining for two hours, with a prospect for a biavy track and slow time. To-morrow there are two races on the programme. The first a selling race, one mile and a half, seven to start, selling pools aa follows: Mctiibben 4o, Uartl gan $37, Bill Dillon $21, Charlie Gorhem $21, Joe It bodes $18, Harry Peyton $15, short Itine b. Second Bice, a Bweepstakes for three- year-olds, mile heats, McHenry $45, Grinstead 33. Fairy Uueen $30. tiowen $12, Ben Hadley, Florence Payne and signal, in tbe held, $IB. FOBEIGN. Tbe Brlllab Parliament. London, May 13. In the House of CommonB this afternoon, Sir Stafford Northcote. Chancellor of the Exchequer, declined to fix a day for discussion of the resolution of Mr. Chamberlain, Radical, on the Uueen's foreign policy. The Uhan- cellor also, in response to a question of Henry Jones. Liberal, whether tne Brit ish troops in Europe do not exceed the number authorized by Parliament, saia we never included, in fixing the number of the British army, the latter. He said it ie about seven hundred and fifteen above the estimates, in consequence of fluctua tion in recruiting. .Lord xlartington. leader ot tbe Liber als, announced he would shortly move a resolution that no forces be raised or kept by tbe Crown in time of peace, Bave witn the sanction of Parliament. Sir Stafford Northcote said he boned to submit a supplementary estimate to-day fortnight, when Lord Partington a resolution might be discussed. In the House of Lords, Lord Granville, Liberal, gave notice of a question as to whether the employment of the Indian troops in Europe, without the sanction of Parliament, is lawful. Tbe Socialistic Problem Dlicnaaed, Berlin, May 13. The Free Press, a Socialist journal, repudiates, condemns, and utterly disowns Hoedel, who attempted to assassinate the Emperor. The editor declares that in coneequenoe of the paragraph upon the agents of the Christian Socialistic party, published in that paper, Hoedel a few days ago appeared at the office to state that he was one of those agents, sympathized with the Christian Socialists, and wag an Anarchist at the same time. The man was evidently mad, and no political party could- be held re-BDonsible for his nefarious deed. The Christian Socialists are a result of the labors of a few metropolitan clergymen anxious to resist the spread of oom- munistio and atheiatio doctrines among the working classes, and a short time bio endeavored to organize a party with a mitigated socialistic programme. Including an admixture of religious and Royal istlo principles, The party are professed itoyailstB. A correspondent says we are chiefly indebted for this movement to the interest . To awiaisei am ni Htone i-e-wer IMpo, I'ormC'S' lraln Tile, Pl.e Clay Flue pipe, 'awn Vases, Chimney Tops, T- ire Hrle.lt, ArtlnclalejtoneWlndowCapa, Fire Clay, to. Nel for Ircmar and Price.. mr7 2taw 6m tu s 1 2 4p iuper-intelllgent professors took in dogmatizing npon a social reform, added to a long commercial crisis. . Tue Tnrhlah Cabinet ami tue Bar-vender or Baloam. Berlin, May 13. The prevailing idea of the Constantinople dispatches seems to be that the Cabinet somewhat too readily acted upon the panic view of the palace consequent npon General Todleben'a threats. Notwithstanding the orders from Seraskievale, the surrender of Bi-toum is extremely doubtful. The Russians are closing in in its rear, and dis arming the population hostile to llueBia, Knasln Preparing- to Organize a Volunteer Fleet. St. Petersburg, May 13 The Official Messenger publishes a proclamation calling for subscriptions for the organization of a volunteer fleet, in order to defend the just cause in case the adversary of Bussia ahonld provoke war. The Czajowilch will receive subscriptions in St. Peters burg. Tue French President CoDBratn-lute. King- William. Berlin. May 13. Among the tele grams congratulating .the Emperor upon his escape from assassination, waa one signed "The President of the French Republic. MacMahon," which has made an especially favorable impression. A Boyal Announcement. Berlin. Mav 13 The Emperor of Germany and fiance have informed tbe Queen of their consent to the betrothal of the Duke of Connaught to the FrincetB Louise, third and youngest daughter of Prince Frederick CharleB of Prussia. Oealb of tbe laptaln of tbe Ameri can ltlile Team. Tf vw York. Mav 13. General Thomas H. Dakin. caotain of the American rifle team, died suddenly this morning. The General attended Plymouth Church last evening with the Thirteenth regiment, Plttabnrit Live Stock Market. Bast Libxrtv. May 13. Cattle Receipts since and including Friday 3873 head thrnnoh and 255 of vard stock. makiDg the total for the week ending this day 6372 head through and 374 yard sgainBt iavi tnrougu and 1023 yard the week before. Not many cattle on hand; nothing doing in the wholesale line; retail business iB also at about ia advance over last week; best $B 25 5 75; good butchers' stock $4 755 10; com mon butcher stoca iaigt ov. Hoes - Receipts to-day 8470 head, making the total for the week 12,210 againBt 11,330 the week before; Yorkers $3 60(giJ 60; Philadelphia $3 753 80. Sheen Receipts to-day 4700 head, making the total for the week 13,000 against 13,900 the week before; selling at $46; nil sold; pro op act Inli. ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS. State medical soelety. - The Ohio Slate Medical Society will convene in thia oity to-day for a three days' session. The delegates will be en tertained at the Institution for the Blind this evening by tbe pupils in a presentation of the opera Oberon. The exercises will be given promptly at seven o'clock, loqneat of Lunacy. Mary A Raid, aged fifty years, was ad judged insane yesterday. The papere were made out to send her to the Asylum, when it was discovered that she had not gained a residence in this county, ehe having lately been a resident of Bellaire, and of Wheeling, West Virginia. The Judge was not certain whether she belonged here, in Belmont county, or in the State named. The Judge refused to send the woman to the Asvlum until the ques tion of her residence wae determined. G, W. Butler was the examining physician. Brnuner Complimented. During the session of the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon a member of the House gravely asked permission far Mr. John T. Brady, Message Clerk, to make a statement seriously affecting an officer of the House. The Speaker said unanimous consent would be required. No objection was made and Mr. Brady "propelled" with neatness and diBDatch. the members crowding around to hear what he had to say. His remarks were directed at Hon, L. A. Brunner, and were preliminary to the presentation, in behalf of the corps of subordinate clerks, of a beautiful ebony cane, with a gold bead, appropriately inscribed. Brunner responded like the Columbian orator he is, Bnral and Locnl Burglaries. Burglars entered the store room of Cap tain Sells, at Hllliard station, Sunday night, and secured several revolvers, a quantity of cigars, some postage Btamps and six or eight dollars in money, They effected an entrance at the rear of the building and turned things in the store upside down generally. The Captain ia postmaster, Justice of the Peace and storekeeper all combined, and being such an important factor of the cross roads, he can not eee why be should be made a Bpecial object of burglarious visitation. Tne prolesslonai sneaks wno are oecom-ine so numerous of late, entered Smith's restaurant, North High street, Saturday night, and provided themselves with several gallons of whisky and a quantity of cigars. There waa an attempted burglary at the residence of Mr. Berry, at the corner of Park and Qoodale streets, Saturday evening. The family had gone to market, during which time the thieves entered, and when Mr. and Mrs. Berry returned they had all the valuable goods about the house piled up on the fhor ready to ba taken away. It is supposed that the unexpected apperioiice of the family frightened the evening visitors away, and they departed without securing anything of value, Beat Estate Tran.rer.. Deeds have been tiled in the Recorder's office since our Inst report as follows: Edward Kelton to Charles A. Kile, lot 1 in a subdivision of a part of lot 6 In a sub division of the Starr farm, at ay iu, lavo, for iionn. John Smiley to Henry W. Whip, quit- c aim io a tract oi ianu ia onarou lown-uip, M 10. 1H78 far 1181100. Lyman Beefier, assignee, to Henry W. Whin. nuiLolaim to the former's interest tn tbe above property, May 10, 1878, for t)300. BEST QUALITY! LO EST PRICKS I DIED. CnsNtHouAM At residence, 205 North High Btreet, Monday evening, Mrs. Nahoy Cunningham, aged fifty-one years. . The remains .will be taken to Cleveland on the 10 a. m. train, Tuesday. Friend- of the family are requested to meet at the residence at a quarter before nine o'c ock. New Adverttnements. PosYoflico Department. . MAIL LETIINGS. NOTICE TO COJVTllACTOKS PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE Contraut ofnee of tbis Department unttu p. m. of July 2i,1878,for carrying the mails of the United States upon the routes and according to the echeduleot arrival and departure specified by tbe Department, In tha.Stato of Ohio, from October 1, 1878, to June 3(1, 183(1. Lists of routes, with achedule. of arrivals and departures, instructions to bidders, with forme for proposals and bonds, and all other necessary information, will be mrniwhed upon application lo tlio Second Assistant Post-master General. D. M. KEY, Postmaster General. Washington, D. O., May 10, 1878. my!4 Itaw tlw ' Patent Burglar Proof And Ventilating Sash Lock, . CAN BE APPLIED TO NEW OR OLD sash. The only Lo-k that will ventilate a house and secure it from burglars. S6AG8NTs WANTED. A liberal discount to the trade. Manufactured and for sale, wholesale and retail, by Cor. ot High and Friend HI. , m;14 1 2 p tf COLUMBUS, O. M. & D. KRUMII, SUCCISSOBS TO MAliTIN KHUMM, UANUrAOTCREBB OT ' IRON FENCIMI No. an s. Fourtli St., myl4 6m OOLUMXITJ, O. MANTELS & GRvTEsf Of THE FAUOUS For which new letters patent have justben-ia-ened. The public are cautl-nod tagamet In-rrmemei.t8. See that tht nam of Bariian'a fat-mtiaon fide jams. '' C. S. RANKIN CO., Manufacturers of Mantt Grates and all kind of Wrought and Cast lion Work tor Buildinnx. Designs and Estimates furnished on application 1ST Pearl -tret, mvUeodly. CITS ClT$NJm.'VI . O. The Insana Asylum Hill be lust d to Ihe I'uMlc H EDVENDAT AFXRlVOON luyll 2t 1 4p THE OHIO STATE MBPICAL ASSOCIATION will hold Ub moetiDga In the City Hull, on. TueBdey, Wodnasday and Thursday, Miiy 14, 16 and ie. The Hessians will begin af3 o'clock p. m Tuesday By order of Committee of Arrangements. It NOTICK. THE UNDHRSIGISED HAS .men appointed and nuahflrd as aflsignee for the benefit of all creditors of the Monday Creek Iron Com any. Address Room 35 Pioneer Block, Columbus, Ohio, where all creditors aro required to present their claims WILLIAM V. McCRACKEN, Algnee. Columbus. O., May 13, 1S?3. myU Haw 3w George C. Bechrist, pl'M Before Matthlts Mar. v. t tin,J P. .Montgomery Johnson Virtue, deft, J tp , Franklin Co., U. I ,N THE 7th DAY OF MAY, 1878, SAID JUS- 9 TICE issued an order of at,tachme't tn the above action for the tiim of $lt5. Cause set for hearing June 3 J, 1678, 9 o'clock a. tn. myUdlt my25w2t THE DINING PARLORS or ma PARIS OF AMERICA, (Tbe Willie I root) No. 174 W. Fourtb. St., OIN CI IN IV A. XI, OPEN DAY to WIGHT. aEBTConveulent to Ballroada "Wi The Cheapest and Neatest Place in the cilf to get your Meals. COL. J. O. CIIAN13, myl3 tf Hp Jtranage v. Xj. O. ROOItEY, (successor to W. A. Haliony t Co.) KIHOVID TO 120 SOUTH HIGH STREET. Coulectloucry, Sints, Cigars, Anil Tobacco. FOREIGN & DOHEHTIC FRUITS A peetsl(jr. vSTionBlciiraenta Solicited. ap30 eod Im 1 4p Musical Festival ! EXCURSIffrTnCKETS To Cincinnati over Columbus, Springfield and Cincinnati, and Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis railroads at H-A.rj37" XXjX.THlfSk During the Fesl Irai Season. To be sold May 13 to 17. Good for roturn till 19th. my4 lot Uip GEO. n. ELLIOTT, Oculist Optician, 7 South High gtroet, Colnmbns, O. TBBATB ALL OPTICAL DEFECTS OF tbe Kye. Saectaolis fitted after scientific measurement of the defects. Office hours 9 to 12 a, m,, 2 to 5 p.m. mr30 d l4pSw ly

r to fte .nrtrrtrar. .iv k mm mm mm mm mm mm 1 ma mm t mm mm VOL. XXXIX. COLUMBUS, TUESDAY, MAY 14. 1878. NO. 113. SIEBERT & LILLEY, Blank Book MASDF.KITCBEltS, Priii tfti-s.Mluders, Stationers amd f .eval Hlunk Publishers. i fOLL uii or Ready-Wade BLANK BOOKS Kept constantly on hand. BOOK BINDING Of every description, by IneEdl tlon or Single Volume. Optra HtMe apt ly Building (Up Stain), Ibiuh PnuBj. Rodhiy Foos. PILLARS & FOOS, Attorneys-at-Law, Boom Ho. S, Pioneer Blocs, feb9 dtf wtt Q1.TJMBCH, OHIO. SPRING AND SUMMER Woolens GEO. T. DUVALL, Merchant Tailor! is7 aimia nieu sr. jiMORNEYS. W. NEIL OENNISON, &ttorja.y.atXjaw AND NOTABT I? TJ U H e . Collections promptly attended to. Office In Pioneer Block. novlO tf o. Z. roa-iuivtun.; ATT ORNE Y-A.T-I AW. HO. 71 NORTH HIUH ST., Benin a Farnon Btonlfi Oolnmbite.O, XI. O. MRICOH, A. ttoruo ynt UnWi 23 E. State St , Columbus, 0., (First Bailding vest of City Ball). ' A., -Hi. Oil tHillTON, AHorneya t-Ij aw, 14 Pioneer BlucB, tolambii.. Collections promptly attended to. roylldAffly lull .'? I IHgli, Pearl and ('Impel St.. C0M1.T. 1. w. raANOlaco. COMLY & FRANCISCO, FUBLlflUEttB AKD rROPBIETOBS. A. W. FBANCIflCO, Heneral Manager Jncfiea't'ons for the Tenneitee and Ohio Va'ky ant Lake Segion Northerly winds, ailing barometer, cooler, cloudy and rainy weather, prcctfinQ an area of loin pressure. Gold closed in New York yesterday at 100. Is .pursuance of some kind of compromise made on Sunday, the appropriation bill was disposed of yesterday morning, and the Senate adopted the House resolution resoinding the resolution, providing for adjournment at 8J a.m. So we have the General Assembly with us still. The Senate adopted a resolution providing for adjournment on Wednesday, which Is now in the hands of a House committee, and may not be acted on uutil the Senate disposes of the redisricting question. The House tedistrioting bill was read the seoond time in the Senate, referred, reported back, and set for third reading to-day. A motion to make it the special order failed to receive the vote necessary to give it force, but it received nineteen votes, one more than the number necessary to pass the bill. The Democratic Senators held a caucus last night, which was in the nature of an exceedingly olose corporation. They remained in BesBlon till ten o'clock, not even admitting Democratic reporters, and came out looking like a funeral procession. Ther declined to impart the scorns with which hey had been wrestling but substantially admitted that' there had been trouble. Some of them attempted to leave the imnression that nothing had been done, while others indicated that action had been taken which did not please all. A leak wss discovered at a late hour, how ever, and It was ascertained to a reason able degree of authenticity that the can ens atrreed upon changing three districts in the bill as passed by the House, so as to accommodate certain Senators and make fourteen or fifteen Democratic districts out of the twenty in the State. The gerryman der was gerrymandered. Fayette county was taken from the Hocking-Fairfield' Vinton-Boss-Fike Fayette district (the Tenth in the House bill) and added to the Fourth Green, Clarke, Champaign, Logan and Union. Gallia and Meigs, associated with Scioto, Jackson and Law renoe in the House bill, were traded to the Tenth district "for Boss and Pike. The three districts referred to stand, after revision by the Senate caucus, as follows: Fourth Greene, Clarke, Champaign, Logan, Union and Fayette. Tenth Hocking, Fairfield, Vinton Gallia and Meigs. Twelfth Scioto, Jackson, Lawrence, Pike and Boss. It ahonld be stated that the numbers of the districts were changed by the House in passing the bill agreed upon by the caucus of the Democratic members of that body. This explanation is made to explain the disagreement between the num bers above given and those heretofore published. Damaged by ibe Frost. Milwatjkii!, Wis., May 12 There ' wbb a heavy frost throughout the State last night. Considerable damage was done to the corn, potatoes and garden stun, jsome counties also report great in jury to the fruit, BY TELEGRAPH TO TBS OBIO STATS JOURNAL WASHINGTON. Congressional Encouragement of the Bell Punch. Senate Discussion of the Post- office Appropriation Bill. Potter's Great in the Two-Horse Act House. Resolution for tie Investigation of Florida and Louisiana. Garfield and Ilule Make Pol ler's Path Bugged. The Democrats Refuse to Admit Amend' ments Extending Examination, The Bepublicans Embarrass the Bes olution by Breaking a Quorum. CONTESTED ELECTION CASE. Washington, D. C, May 13 Tie House oommittee on Eleotions has ordered the majority and minority reports in the South Carolina contested eleotion case of Richardson, Democrat, v. Rainy, Republican, sitting member, 10 be presented to the House Wednesday next. The majority report favors a new election; the minority declares the preeent incumbent entitled to the seat. XLVIti CouKrea. Viral Beeelon. BENATK. , Mr. Johnson introduced a bill to lew. bv the Mcffett bell punch, tax on liquors in all places in the District where intoxicants are sold by the drink. Referred. Mr. Merrill presented the petition of half a dozen mechanics of BoBtoo, favoring the repeal of the eight hour law. They declare it is unjust to pay workmen, employed by the Government, as much for eight hours work as other workmen receive for ten hours. Referred. Mr. Gonoyer, from the committee on Post- offices and Post Roads, reported back the amendment to the Postoffice Aopropriation bill, authorizing the Postmaster' General to advertise for carrying malls between San Francisco and Hongkong, touching at Yokohama, and pay therefor not exceeding $30 per mile. The amendment is similar to that recently reported by the committee, pre-viding for mail steamship service between New York, New Orleansnnd Brazil. It was referred. The amendment also provides for a mail Bteamship service between San Francisco and Sidney, Australia, touching at the Sandwich Islands and New Zealand, at a cOBt not to exceed $30 per mile. At tne expiration or tne morning nour, the Postoffice Appropriation bill was taken up. The President pro tern, laid before tne Senate a communication from the Secretary of War, calling attention to the fact that the payment of claims for bounty and arrears of pay due discharged soldiers, will cease the 30th of June next,unlers the necessary money be appropriated. Referred. The amendments of the committee were agreed to as follows : Increasing the appro priation lor preparation and puotication oi postoBice maps from $25,000 to $40,000; providing postmasters who make false returns be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year or punished by both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of tbe 0urt the House provided for the punishment of such offenses by a fine not less than $50, nor moie than SaOO increasing lb appropria tion for compensation to clerks iu tbe post-offices from $3,440,000 to $3,500,000; for the payment of letter carriers from $1,865,000 to $2,000,000; for the transportation ot mails by railroad Iron) $9,10,000 to $9,635,000. A long discussion took place upon the amendment in regard to the compensation of the Superintendent of the postal railway service. Tne House ot representatives pro vided that he should receive $2500 a year, with traveling and incidental expenses while actually traveling in the service of not exceeding five dollars per day, and the Senate committee submitted an amendment so as to read while actually employed iu the service, instead of while actually traveling in the service. The amendment was agreed to yeas 32, nays Id. While the vote was being taken, Mr. Dor-sey announced that his colleague (Mr. Garland) had been called home by the illness of one of his sous, and since be had left the city, be (Horsey ) Pad learned ot tne deatn ot the ton. The Senate committee reported an amend ment to strike out tbe clause directing the Postmaster Ueneral to readiust tne compen sation to be paid railroads for transporting mans atter tn. nrst ot July next, oy reauo-ing the compensation five per cent, per annum. Agreed to. The amendment increasing the appropria tion for compensation to tbe railway post-office clerks from $1,275,000 to $1,325,000 was ngreed to; also, an amendment Btriking out the clause providing postal clerks, route agents and mall route messengers Bnall not be requtrea to wear unttorms otner tuan a cap or badge. Other amendments, increasing the appropriation for route agents from $1,020,000 to $1,030,000, and increasing the appropriation to be paid out of the Treasury from $4,106,-274 to $4,960,274, to supply deficiencies shonld the revenues of tbe Department be Insufficient, were agreed to. Mr. Maxev. from the committee on Post- offices and Post Roads, submitted an amend ment already published, providing for a semi-monthly mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil, steamers leaving New Orleans and New York once every two weeks. nr. gdmunas raises tne point oi oruer mat this amendment was contrary to the 29th rule, not germain, and proposed general legislation.A long discussion followed, Messrs. Maxey, Davis of West Virginia and Ferry advocating the amendment, and Messrs. Thurman, Bailey and others opposing on different grounds. in tne course oi tne discussion, a letter was read from the manager of an existing Enzlish line saving tbev could not compete for the subsidy and did not want adverse legislation. Mr. tiiaine said it tnat letter was not cheek. he ditnotknow what it was. Pending discussion on Mr. Bdmttnds'B point ot order, tne senate adjourned. HODSG. The vote by which the main question was ordered on tbe bill to regulate inter-State commerce, was reconsidered and the bill went over until to-morrow. Mr. Potter, sb a question of privilege, presented the following preamble and resolution:Whbhbas, The State of Maryland has, by its Legislature, formally declared that due effect was not given to the electoral vote cast by the State on the 6th day of December, 1876, by reason of fraudulent returns in the elec oral votes from the States of Florida and Louisiana; and whereas, an affidavit by Samuel B. McLln, Chairman of the Board of State Canvas ere of the State of Florida, for the election held in that State in November, 1676, for election of President end Vice President, has been made public, alleging false and fraudulent retnrns of the votes at such election in that Btate, whereby the ch 'ice of the people of llut State was an nulled and reversed, and that the action of the Board of Btate Canvassers in making such returns, was influenced by the con- auct ana promises ot tion. uawara r . noyes, now Minister to the Government of France; and whereas, it is alleged that conspiracy existed in the State of LoniBiana,wbereby the Republican vote iu all the precincts of the parish of East Feliciana and in some precincts of West Feliciana at the general election in novemoer, 1H7B, was purposely witnneia from the polls to afford a pretext for eic!u sion by the Returning board of that State of th vote cast in those prtciucts for electors of President ana vice rreiiaent, ana tnat James E. Anderson, supervisor of registration of East Feliciana and D. A. Weber, su pervisor of registration in the parish of West Frdiciana. in that State in furtherance of that conspiracy falsely protested that the election in such precincts had not been fair and free, and that the State Returning board falsely and fraudulently excluded the votes of saia precincts, ana Dy means tnereot ana oi otner laise ana irauauient actions Dy tne said Returning Board, tnecnoice of tne people of that State was annulled and reversed, and that such return ot said Weber and Anderson was encouraged by the assurances of Hon. John Sherman, Secretary ot the Treasury of the United States; and whereas, the gravity of these charges, the nature of evidence upon which thev are reported to be based, and the official dignity aua position oi tne personB namea in connection with said frauds, make it proper that the same shall be inquired into, to theend tbat tne nooor ot tne nation may do vinaicatea and the truth as to sueh election made known; therefore, lie it Resolved,. That a select committee, consisting of eleven members of this House, De appointed to inquire into tne atoresaid allegation as to the conduct of the persona in office, in respect to said election, and cite the auegea tame ana. irauauient canvass ana ie. turn of votes by State, countv, parish and precinct officers in said States of Louisi ana ana fiouaa, ana into an iacts, wuicn, in tne juagmeni oi saia committee, are connected therewith. and that said committee, for the purpose of execnting this resolution, shall nave power to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths and to take testimony, and in their discretion to detail sub-committees, with line fu.l authority of said committee in every particular, and with power to sit in Florida and Louisiana, which sub-committees Bhall De committees ot tnis House, ana tne cnair-man thereof shall be authorized to adminis ter oaths; that said committee andsub-committees may employ stenographers, be accompanied each by a deputysergeant-alarms, and may sit during the Bessiousof this House and during the vacation, and that said cimmittee proceed on this inqniry and nave leave to report at any time. The nreamble and resolution having been read, Mr. Oooger said they did not preseBt a question of privilege, and that the powers pro posed in the resolution coma not ne given bv a mere majority vote, but would require a suspension of the rules. , air. rotter saia one wouia suppose that it there was any subject which should be en titled to preference iu this House in respect of order of business, it was the Bubject brought to its notice by the memorial of a sovereign State, touching the official conduct of the high officers of the Government and relating to fraud alleged to have occurred changing the result of an election of tne highest officers ot this Uovernment. Mr. Conger Has the memorial of the State of Marvland been committed to the gentleman from New York, so that he has any possession of it in which to offer such a resolution ? Mr. Potter I am now speaking only to the question of order. Later on, if I have an opDortunity to sav anything. I shall be able to make an answer to the inquiry which tne gentleman has just put to me. now, as to the Question of order, it seems to me that to state the case is to argue it. it; for reasons that appear on the face of thiB resolution, this inquiry is not privileged, then nothing can, by its nature, be privileged. If the House of Representatives has the right to give preference to tbe consideration of any subject, a subject of tbe magnitude of this bne, to which tbe resolution relates, ought certainly to bave such preference. Mr. Hale argued trom tbe llulea and man ual that the resolution did not present a question of privilege. If thB resolution proposed, or was intended to subvert tbe accepted result in tbe Presidential election, thon there mieht be Borne claims thai it did pre sent a question of privilege, but as a mere expesssion of opinion, it did not present any such question. Mr. uarneid also argued against tne resolution beinir a privileged one. He said : The gentleman - from New York oases his claim that it is a privileged question on the fact that the memorial whicb it recites is a memorial from a Bovereign State and is therefore entitled to a very high place in the consideration of this bouse. I think the gentleman from New York was unfortunate in planting his case on that idea. The States of this Union are represented by members who are sent here to speait ana vote for their States, and iu no other way whatever can a State of this Onion be heard on this floor, except under the rule (which is a recent mooiticationj mat on uonaay morn ing s call, joint resolutions oi state ana territorial Legislatures may be introduced for Drlntincr and reference. The speaker Would the gentleman from Ohio deny to the State the right of petition as given in the Constitution ? Mr. Garfield Ob, a State has of course the right of petition. The Speaker A memorial is a petition, and is nrovided for in the Constitution. wherein it is stated that Congress shall make no law abridging tbe right of the people to petition the Uovernment for a redress of erievances. Mr. Garfield The Speaker's reference to the right of petition is entirely unnecessary. Tbat Question was discussed on this very Maryland resolution, and everybody here granted perfect and unquestioned right of peuiiuu, UUb tut, riui. ui aunuu uwo wu iu.d floor is quite a different thing, and the ques tion ot wnetuer it rises to tne oiauuv oi a nrivllflired aueBtion. denends upon tbe right of action which somebody can demand of tbe House. This is a question ot privilege without doubt, provided the mover of it alleges he proposes to follow it up as a matter ot impeaenment. it ne says mat mis is a proceeding intenaea to pave tne way to impeachment, then doubtless it may be a question of privilege. If he says thiB is a proposition by the House to raiseand determine the qneslion of the title of th. present Chief Magistrate to ine oiuce wmcu ue noma, men I answer that the qestion has been determined by the joint voice of the two houses of Congress and it is beyond the reach of tbis House. If, again, the object of the resolution is merely to organize a committee for oampaign pnrposes, to make campaign literature for next fall, then the exigencies of a political party have never yet risen to the dignity of questions of privilege. Furthermore, there is in this resolution a proposition that the committee shall have the right to sit in the recess. Neither of those two propositions can be adopted by a majority vote, and I thereupon reserve that part of tbe order until the opportunity shall arise. I am glad, after the lotg threat has been hanging over the country, that these gentlemen, in tbe language of Shakespeare, have "left off their damnable faces and begun," and now let the play go on. Applause on the Republican side. Mr. Mills argued that the resolution did not present a question of privi ege. He could find no shelter for it under the Constitution, unless nnder that nower ot the Con atitution which gave to the House the right to originate an impeachment against the President for Hiirh crimes and misdemean ors, but in order to make it a question of privilege under tne constitutional provision, the resolution must coutain a charge against the President of sufficient gravity to justify the House la putting him on trial for lm-neachment. All the frauds alleged in tbe resolution had been once investigated, and that a comnetent body under the Constitu tion bad declared the present Incumbent of tbe . Presidency io ne duly elected nnder tbe Constitution and laws, and that was the end of it. Tbe power no longer existed in the Fortyfourth Congress, and any attempt of the Fortyfifih Congrats to exercise such power over the Fresideottal election was usurpation. This Congress bad no power at all over that question. Whatever power the Constitution vested in either Congress on tbe subiect, had been exercised by the Fortyfourth Conirress. and there re mained not a shadow of right on the part of in is uongresa to exercise sucn power. t-The only power which this Bouse had over the President was the power to impeach him for some crime and misdemeanor, which he himself bad committed, but not for frauds which others had committed in bringing him to the Presi dency. If this House bad tbe power to investigate the question as to whether Hayes oDtainea tne rresiaency, it also had tne ngnt to investigate the means by which JameB K. Polk had obtained the Presidency in bis time, and it might go back to the days of ueorge Washington ana bring tbe Iact ot mi eleotion before the people. He repeated that any attempt on the part of this House to investigate and to undo what had been done by the Fortyfourth Congress in declar ing who was President, was nothing short of usurpation, Applause on the Kepublican side Mr. Cox of New York read an extract from the decision of the Electoral Commission in the case, and charged Mr. Garfield, one of the Commissioners, with having either a convenient conscience, or con venient logic. It seemed to him (Cox) tbat whatever steps might be taken to reach tbat great transaction, tne gentleman trom umo neia tney were ouisiae tne record aliunde. So far as the question of privilege was concerned, tbis was a question of high privilege Hon constat that it must lead to impeaenment.Mr. Potter held the privilege asked for was only the privilege of having now con sidered the resolution presented; the privilege to which the resolution was entitled arose from tbe fact that it had been set in motion, first, by the public formal action of a sovereign State; and Becond, from the nature or tbe Bubject matter to which it referred The gentleman on the other side had been quick to declare that if he (Potter) would say tbat the purpose ot the resolution was to impeach and unseat the President of the United States, they would admit it wss in order. That he declined to declare. If the construction, given to the rule by the gentleman from Maine (Hale) was right, that the limitation of the privilege in reference to the election of President l inquiry in reference to his election before be is seated, or with a view to unseating him, that was a construction which would forever prohibit tbe House from inquiring into the frauds that had been successfully committed and which had come to Knowledge atter their succesBtul accom plishment. If there was anything in tbe nature of fraud that made it desirable to be inquired into, it was when the fraud had been successful, and if the House refused to iuquire because the frauds had succeeded. that tbe commission of eucb frauds would be encouraged, and the failure to investigate, so far from securing, would jeopardize the peace and security ot tne country. The Speaker The issue involved is a new one in the history of this country, and an examination of- the basis on which the preamblo and resolution are introduced is proper. The Legislature of Maryland passed a joint resolution touching the subject treatea ot in the preamble and the resolution just read. A copy of that resolution of Marvland. has been remitted to tbis House and has been referred to a commitee, and is within the knowledge of the members of the House, in which the following langnage is used: "That full effect has not been given to the electoral vote cast by the State of Maryland on the 6th day of November, 1876, by reason ot fraudulent returns made from other States and allowed to be counted provisionally by the Electoral Commissioners and subject tojudicial revision." It further alleges that the returns from Louisiana and Florida, which were cast for the preseut occupant of the Presidential Chair, wero fraudulent and void. Hero is an appeal of a State of this Union to the Federal legislative power, tor the correction of a high grievance, said to hare been committed in the States of Florida and Louisiana, against the rights of the State of Maryland, in baving, by iraud in said states ot f lorida and Louisiana, produced a different result in the election of President and Vice President from that actually decreed by the people themselves at the polls. W hetber these allegations can be sustained by proof, it is not tor the Obair to consider. It is enougn lor ihe Chair to know they come from a power whicb. within limits, is recognized as sov ereign bv the Constitution, and tbat the issue involved runs to tue weuare oi tbe people ot the States. Nor is it within the reach of propriety for the Chair to express an opinion as to how far such investi gation should go in order to reach the facts, nor what limits should be set upon It. A higher privilege than the one here involved and broadly and directly presented as to tbe rightful occupancy of the Chief Executive chair of the Government, and as the connec tion ot high uovernment officials Willi tne frauds alleged, tbe Cbair is unable to conceive. The Chair finds enumerated among the questions of privilege set down in the manual tne louowtng: Election oi President. The Chair therefore rules that the preamble and resolution embrace questions of privilege of the highest character and the Chair recognized the right of the geutleman from New York to answer the same. Ap plause ou the Democratic side. The other points ure ot couse neld in reserve. Mr. Conger appealed from the decision of tue Uhalr. Mr. Potter moved to lay the appeal on the table, and the motion was agreed to yeas 1KB, nays luo a party vote, with tne exception of Messrs Fnrt, Mitchell and Butler, who voted with the Democrats, and Messrs. Buckner and Mills, who voted with the Re publicans. Mr. Reagan, desiring to justify his vote in support of tbe resolution, stated, while he agreed with Ins colleague (Mills) that tbe revival of the Presidential question could not be had by the House, the resolution in alleging that great frauds had been perpe trated raised a question of the highest privilege. Mr. Conger raised the point of order, that as the resolution gave a committee unusual powers to sit during recess, to report at any time, and for the chairman of sub-commit tees to administer oaths, it could not be adopted by a mere majority vole; also, that the resolution provided for the expenditure of money, and it must be first considered in committee ot tue w noie. Tbe Speaker ruled that as to the right of the chairman of the sub committees to ad minister oaths, that was a matter to be de cided by tbe committee itself. If it was contrary to law, then it did not matter whether tne power was given oy a iwotniras vote or bv a majority vote. After argument as to the rule applying to tbe case, in which Messrs. 1 hompson. But ler. Savler and Coswell participated, tbe Speaker overruled the point of order as to tne power ot tne committee to sit during recess.The next point discussed was on the right of the chairman of the sub-committees to administer oaths. Mr. Conger said the statute prescribed who might administer oaths, including tbe chairman of the committee, and the rules declared who should be chairman tbe first named member of the committee, and in bis absence tbe next in order, and so on. The House could not by a simple resolution say differently from the roles, that the chairman ot a suD-commutee was toe cn airman of the committee. The Sneaker overruled the point of order on the ground that if tbe House should au-authorize the appointment of sub committees in the manner provided, the chairman of such sub-committees would nave power un der the very words of the statute to administer oaths. He also overruled the point as to the expenditure of money. Mr. Garfield then made the point of order that it required a twothirds vote to give a committee power to report at any lime. Tbe Sneaker sustained the noint. whereuo- on Mr. Potter struck out that part of tbe resolution. Mr. Hale asked Mr. Potter to yield to him to oner an amendment. Mr. Potter said be introduced the tesolu tion at the request of bis political associates made this morning a gentleman wboee wish he did not feet at liberty to refute. The resolution contemplates nothing but an inquiry into the facta of the elec oral votes of Floiida and Louisiana and into tbe paitici-pation of officers of the Government in connection with tbealleged frauds there. What can be done alter the inquiry is completed what ought to be done should be determined only aflrr tne inquiry nas Deen bad. Mr. Potter then moved the previous quel tion, saying the House could determine by its vote on that motion whether the matter shall be further dehated. Mr. Hale said he had an amendment to offer, which was clearly germain to tbe reso. IntioD, and be submitted tbat in all fairness he should be permuted to offer it. He hoped the gentleman ( Potter) would not seek here and now to stifle further debate or to prevent the KepuU'ican side ot the House trom oner ing amendments tbat would make tbe iu vestigation more exhaustive and searching He therefore asaed the gentleman to yield to bim to oner biB amendment. Mr. Potter I will yield to the gentleman to state tbe nature of his amendment. It may be tbat in the form of an amendment, he merely wants to eet in a speech. Mr. Hale Tbe better way is for the gen tleman to allow tne amendment to De read. Mr. Potter The gentleman from Maine is exceedingly familiar with parliamentary law and is able to state the nature of his amendment, and when he states it, then I will allow it to be onerea. Mr. Hale Will the gentleman let the amendment be read? Then he will understand what it is. I will send it to the Clerk's desk. Shouts of "No," "No," from the Democratic side.l Mr. Potter Tbe gentleman from Maine can answer it he chooses, and if he refuses to answer and insista on giving me an answer on a quire ot foolscap, then 1 say it is not an appeal to my courtesy as I ought to yield to. For aught I know, it may refer to other Slates than tbe States of Florida and Louisiana. Mr Hale Then the gentleman seems to limit his investigation to tne selected states, and will not ulluw it to go outside. Is that the reason why he will not admit my amendment ( 1 tell the gentleman plainly, my amendment is not confined to the Stale! of Florida and Louisiana. Mr. Potter Now I have got, at last, an answer to my inquiry, and I decline to yield ihe floor to the amendment. If frauds were attempted in Florida and in Louisiana, they were carried out successfully and became operative. It tbe subiect of tbe amendment of the gentleman from Maine is to show there were frauds in South Carolina, by which the electoral vote of that State was carried for Hayes, when it ought to have been counted for Tilden, then I Bhall be prepared to answer as to an amendment of that sort; but tbe entleman from Maine will not venture to eclare anything of that kind. Mr. Hale In other words, you mean to say that any frauds that apply on one side are to be locked into here and tbat any frauds committed by the gentleman's own party are to be eicluded. Is that it 7 Applause on the Republican side. Mr. Potter Ob. no. The world of wrong is very wide. If the gentloman wishes to inquire into matters of moral delinquency outside of Florida and Louisiana, I do not object. Let him introduce bis resolution for that purpose and have himself put at the head of the committee and go into tht investigation. Applause on the Democratic side I seek nothing of the kind. I am not aiming at persons. I desire to ascertain if fraud in tbe electoral vote of those States was reallv perpetrated, and if so. how it wbb perpetrated, in order that such frauds may be preventea nereatier. Mr. Hale Ana tne gentleman aenies any -Attempt at investigation where there are clearly Bhown frauds, the oldest in Ameri can history, perpetrated by bis own party in nan a dozen otner states., ne reiuses to let tbat investigation go to bis committee.Ml'. Tottor I will rote for any lrlni) of an investigation you seek, but the amendment you propose is not germain to this resolution and is intended to prevent effectual investigation. Mr. Hale But the gentleman will not let it go to the committee of which he is the head. I do not ask for the appointment of a committee with a majority from this side of Ibe House, but I ask that the luquny which the gentleman's resolution proposes, be SB sweeping as me country uesires it io De. iir. rotter wen, letiue gentleman trom Maine sweep the dirt for himself. Laugh ter on the Democratic side Mr. Hale Tbe gentleman trom INew lorK evidently does not mean to sweep. Laughter on tbe Republican side. Mr. Potter No, not with the inefficient broom vou would like used. Mr. Garheld took the floor, but was met with calls to order on tbe Democratic side. Mr. Potter said: I yield to any one of the visiting statesmen. Laughter. Mr. Garfield 1 understood the gentleman from New York to say when he was first up that he was not seeking to investigate the Presidential title, but to investigate a question of Iraud in tbe Presidential election. Now, if that be so, I can only say that the gentleman's last position that he will not investigate any alleged fraud in any of the States unless the vote of that State was necessary to put the President in the Presidential chair, is in conflict with that idea. It seems to me my friend utterlv chances his Dosition now to one of seekiog to get at the Presidential title. If be is seeking to get at the question ot fraud in the Presidential election! then he will get, I believe, the unanimous vote of this side of tbe House to pass his resolution, proviaea he will enlarge it to take in all the other cases where there is a real bona fide allegation and belief by a large body of the people of fraud, fully as great as anything he believes to have existed in Florida and Louisiana. If be will enlarge his resolution in that way, it will have my vote and the rote of every man on this Bide of the House, several Republicans "Every man." But if he elects a certain narrow limit of alleged fraud, whicb, in case it is true, can only revert to the political advantage of one political party, and not to the general advantage of truth in the Republic, e will ocoupy a position which all honorable men give to narrow, partisan, partial, unjustinvestigatlon applause on the Republican Bide, and therefore I ask him to let the amendment be offered. Mr. Potter The gentleman from Ohio says I have changed my ground and that 1 want to attack the presidential title. Not at all. Whatever may happen as to tbe Presidential title as the result of this inquiry, does not concern me now. I have said and I repeat, that I bave no purpose of destroying it. He says if I only want to in-veitigate election frauds,the olhsr side of the House would be glad to go iuto a general and sweeping investigation, that is.one so general vuui. n woum never eveniuuio iu uy uiniuiu-ationatall.butihereis between these two ex tremes a very obvious distinction I seek to investigate not with a view to disturbing the rretident or wltb any other view to tne ois- turnance ot settled results. 1 Beea io investigate frauds which have become operative, wmch were successfully carried our. which were effective and which are brought to our notice by the memorial of a sovereign State of this Union. These are just exactly in two States and no more. Therefore an investigation looking bevond these two States wouiu not De germain to me resolution anu wouia ne ot no practical etlect. Mr. Conger took the floor, but was met with loud shouts of "order." "order." from the Democratic side. He, however, succeeded in saying that it the other side would not permit his side to take any part in framing the resolu ion of inquiry the Democratic side might pass its resolution it it could. Applause on the Republican side. Mr. Potter The nentleman from Michi gan is kind. We can do that without bis permission, but if he will offer a resolution to investigate any frauds that he may allege, we will be more liberal than he proposes, and It will receive the votes of this side of tbe House also. ' Mr. Hale I made my proposition in good faith. Gentlemen on the other aide have declined it. . Now let them go on by themselves.Mr. Butler Will tbe gentleman from New York (Potter) allow me to add to bis resolution the words South Carolina? Mr. Garfield Mississippi, also. Mr. Potter No. Mr. Sneaker, for the slm. pie reason no frauds in South Carolina or MiBBisuppt became operative. Tbe distinc- tion is obvious. I must now insist on the previous aueBtion. Tbe Republican Bide of the House here upon resorted to the parliamentary exutdi- ent of withholding tbeir rotes, so that when tbe question came to be tested by tellers tnere were only lib aye3 and 1 no no quo-rum voting. Mr. Potter mcrcd a call of the House, which was made, and ail the Republicans answered to tneir names, so tbat no timber proceedings nnder the call could be texen. Mr. Potter then asked the Soeaker wheth er if the Housb adjourned now, toil question wouia come up as unonisnea business. The Speaker informed him it would remain before tbe House until disposed of. Mr. Conger and other Republicans called upon the democratic side not to show signs of weakness so early. The taunt was answered just as defiantly, and it was intimat ed mat me question wouia remain Detore iub nuuae uniu mere were enougn uemo. orats present to constitute a quorum with out the aid of the Republican vote. This will require the presence of at least thirty more Democrats than were in the House to day. Mr. Potter moved tbat the House adjourn, and the vote was taken by yeas and nays. Pending the announcement of the vote. Mr. Hewitt, from the committee on Appropriations, reported the Army Appropriation bill and it was referred to the committee of the Whole. Mr. Stephens, Chairman of the committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, reported a Din prohibiting the lurtber coinage ot mree ana nve cent silver pieces, ana declaring subsidiary silver coin a legal tender in amounts not exceeding $20. passed. The SDeaker. nrior to announcing tbe re. suit of the vote said: The Chair announces with great sorrow the death of JoseDh Henrv. an American whose scientifio attainments are world wide and who has devoted a life time to tbe Interests of Bcience, regardless of personal comfort or emoluments. The vote was then announced yeas 118, nayB liu, and tne House adjourned. THE TURF. Tbe Kacee at Lexington, Kentacny, xemeruay. Lexington, Ky., May 13. The largest attendance ever knowu on- the Kentucky Association course assembled to-day to witness the first race between Ten Broeck, Vera Cruz, Aristides, Leonard and Bill Bass. Every available space of room was. crowded to its utmost capacity. Before the race Ten Broeck was decidedly the favorite, with Vera Cruz as second choice. Just before the race the pools sold : Ten Broeck, $56, Vera Cruz, $44; Bill Bass, $14; Leonard and Aristides in the field at $20. Mr. Harper wished to draw Ten Broeck before the race, but yielded to the wish of friends to let him start. A good start was had, with Bill Bass in the lead. This he soon surrendered to Leouaul, who maintained that poeition to the half-mile, with tbe other four following well in hand. From the half-mile up the hill and down the homestretch the horses put in their best efforts, Leonard leading. Ten Broeck closed up, however, parsing him and winning by a length under whip and spur, Leonard made an excellent race, being a close second. Aristides and Leonard showed lame after tbe race. Vera Cruz waB third. Tim 248. The second race, Longfellow BtakeB, for three-year-olds, the get of Longfellow, F. B. Harper adds $300, no entrance fee, closed March 1 with five entrances; mile heats. This race was well contested, th. first and second horses showing that they are first-class race homes. The time compares favorably with that of Ten Broeck in the first race. SCUUABV. Dave Moore 1 1 Alert 2 2 Lucille 3 a Time 1 63, 1:644. Third race, colt stake?, for two-year- olde; $50 entrance, $25 forfeit, $250 added, cecond colt to Bave his stake; one- half mile, closed Marcbjl, with fourteen entries; ten started. Thia race waa easily won, and failed to create much interest : George Cadwnllader's cb. c. Kinkova, by Waverly 1 R B. Hunt's br. o. Stilton, by imp Btrocht- no , A. Butord's b. c. Goodnight, by Knuuirer... 3 McGrath's Thornton, bv Tom Bowline e G. w. Bowen A Co.'s Aleo Grant, by imp. u euHi.nui ................................... v B. G. Thomaa'e Gilv Merchant, br Alarm 0 J. A. Gnnetead'a Athel Stare, by John Mor- can 0 D. Swieert'a Druid, bv Flanerold 0 J. G. Blow's Gabriel, by Alarm 0 Time-Mi. It has been raining for two hours, with a prospect for a biavy track and slow time. To-morrow there are two races on the programme. The first a selling race, one mile and a half, seven to start, selling pools aa follows: Mctiibben 4o, Uartl gan $37, Bill Dillon $21, Charlie Gorhem $21, Joe It bodes $18, Harry Peyton $15, short Itine b. Second Bice, a Bweepstakes for three- year-olds, mile heats, McHenry $45, Grinstead 33. Fairy Uueen $30. tiowen $12, Ben Hadley, Florence Payne and signal, in tbe held, $IB. FOBEIGN. Tbe Brlllab Parliament. London, May 13. In the House of CommonB this afternoon, Sir Stafford Northcote. Chancellor of the Exchequer, declined to fix a day for discussion of the resolution of Mr. Chamberlain, Radical, on the Uueen's foreign policy. The Uhan- cellor also, in response to a question of Henry Jones. Liberal, whether tne Brit ish troops in Europe do not exceed the number authorized by Parliament, saia we never included, in fixing the number of the British army, the latter. He said it ie about seven hundred and fifteen above the estimates, in consequence of fluctua tion in recruiting. .Lord xlartington. leader ot tbe Liber als, announced he would shortly move a resolution that no forces be raised or kept by tbe Crown in time of peace, Bave witn the sanction of Parliament. Sir Stafford Northcote said he boned to submit a supplementary estimate to-day fortnight, when Lord Partington a resolution might be discussed. In the House of Lords, Lord Granville, Liberal, gave notice of a question as to whether the employment of the Indian troops in Europe, without the sanction of Parliament, is lawful. Tbe Socialistic Problem Dlicnaaed, Berlin, May 13. The Free Press, a Socialist journal, repudiates, condemns, and utterly disowns Hoedel, who attempted to assassinate the Emperor. The editor declares that in coneequenoe of the paragraph upon the agents of the Christian Socialistic party, published in that paper, Hoedel a few days ago appeared at the office to state that he was one of those agents, sympathized with the Christian Socialists, and wag an Anarchist at the same time. The man was evidently mad, and no political party could- be held re-BDonsible for his nefarious deed. The Christian Socialists are a result of the labors of a few metropolitan clergymen anxious to resist the spread of oom- munistio and atheiatio doctrines among the working classes, and a short time bio endeavored to organize a party with a mitigated socialistic programme. Including an admixture of religious and Royal istlo principles, The party are professed itoyailstB. A correspondent says we are chiefly indebted for this movement to the interest . To awiaisei am ni Htone i-e-wer IMpo, I'ormC'S' lraln Tile, Pl.e Clay Flue pipe, 'awn Vases, Chimney Tops, T- ire Hrle.lt, ArtlnclalejtoneWlndowCapa, Fire Clay, to. Nel for Ircmar and Price.. mr7 2taw 6m tu s 1 2 4p iuper-intelllgent professors took in dogmatizing npon a social reform, added to a long commercial crisis. . Tue Tnrhlah Cabinet ami tue Bar-vender or Baloam. Berlin, May 13. The prevailing idea of the Constantinople dispatches seems to be that the Cabinet somewhat too readily acted upon the panic view of the palace consequent npon General Todleben'a threats. Notwithstanding the orders from Seraskievale, the surrender of Bi-toum is extremely doubtful. The Russians are closing in in its rear, and dis arming the population hostile to llueBia, Knasln Preparing- to Organize a Volunteer Fleet. St. Petersburg, May 13 The Official Messenger publishes a proclamation calling for subscriptions for the organization of a volunteer fleet, in order to defend the just cause in case the adversary of Bussia ahonld provoke war. The Czajowilch will receive subscriptions in St. Peters burg. Tue French President CoDBratn-lute. King- William. Berlin. May 13. Among the tele grams congratulating .the Emperor upon his escape from assassination, waa one signed "The President of the French Republic. MacMahon," which has made an especially favorable impression. A Boyal Announcement. Berlin. Mav 13 The Emperor of Germany and fiance have informed tbe Queen of their consent to the betrothal of the Duke of Connaught to the FrincetB Louise, third and youngest daughter of Prince Frederick CharleB of Prussia. Oealb of tbe laptaln of tbe Ameri can ltlile Team. Tf vw York. Mav 13. General Thomas H. Dakin. caotain of the American rifle team, died suddenly this morning. The General attended Plymouth Church last evening with the Thirteenth regiment, Plttabnrit Live Stock Market. Bast Libxrtv. May 13. Cattle Receipts since and including Friday 3873 head thrnnoh and 255 of vard stock. makiDg the total for the week ending this day 6372 head through and 374 yard sgainBt iavi tnrougu and 1023 yard the week before. Not many cattle on hand; nothing doing in the wholesale line; retail business iB also at about ia advance over last week; best $B 25 5 75; good butchers' stock $4 755 10; com mon butcher stoca iaigt ov. Hoes - Receipts to-day 8470 head, making the total for the week 12,210 againBt 11,330 the week before; Yorkers $3 60(giJ 60; Philadelphia $3 753 80. Sheen Receipts to-day 4700 head, making the total for the week 13,000 against 13,900 the week before; selling at $46; nil sold; pro op act Inli. ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS. State medical soelety. - The Ohio Slate Medical Society will convene in thia oity to-day for a three days' session. The delegates will be en tertained at the Institution for the Blind this evening by tbe pupils in a presentation of the opera Oberon. The exercises will be given promptly at seven o'clock, loqneat of Lunacy. Mary A Raid, aged fifty years, was ad judged insane yesterday. The papere were made out to send her to the Asylum, when it was discovered that she had not gained a residence in this county, ehe having lately been a resident of Bellaire, and of Wheeling, West Virginia. The Judge was not certain whether she belonged here, in Belmont county, or in the State named. The Judge refused to send the woman to the Asvlum until the ques tion of her residence wae determined. G, W. Butler was the examining physician. Brnuner Complimented. During the session of the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon a member of the House gravely asked permission far Mr. John T. Brady, Message Clerk, to make a statement seriously affecting an officer of the House. The Speaker said unanimous consent would be required. No objection was made and Mr. Brady "propelled" with neatness and diBDatch. the members crowding around to hear what he had to say. His remarks were directed at Hon, L. A. Brunner, and were preliminary to the presentation, in behalf of the corps of subordinate clerks, of a beautiful ebony cane, with a gold bead, appropriately inscribed. Brunner responded like the Columbian orator he is, Bnral and Locnl Burglaries. Burglars entered the store room of Cap tain Sells, at Hllliard station, Sunday night, and secured several revolvers, a quantity of cigars, some postage Btamps and six or eight dollars in money, They effected an entrance at the rear of the building and turned things in the store upside down generally. The Captain ia postmaster, Justice of the Peace and storekeeper all combined, and being such an important factor of the cross roads, he can not eee why be should be made a Bpecial object of burglarious visitation. Tne prolesslonai sneaks wno are oecom-ine so numerous of late, entered Smith's restaurant, North High street, Saturday night, and provided themselves with several gallons of whisky and a quantity of cigars. There waa an attempted burglary at the residence of Mr. Berry, at the corner of Park and Qoodale streets, Saturday evening. The family had gone to market, during which time the thieves entered, and when Mr. and Mrs. Berry returned they had all the valuable goods about the house piled up on the fhor ready to ba taken away. It is supposed that the unexpected apperioiice of the family frightened the evening visitors away, and they departed without securing anything of value, Beat Estate Tran.rer.. Deeds have been tiled in the Recorder's office since our Inst report as follows: Edward Kelton to Charles A. Kile, lot 1 in a subdivision of a part of lot 6 In a sub division of the Starr farm, at ay iu, lavo, for iionn. John Smiley to Henry W. Whip, quit- c aim io a tract oi ianu ia onarou lown-uip, M 10. 1H78 far 1181100. Lyman Beefier, assignee, to Henry W. Whin. nuiLolaim to the former's interest tn tbe above property, May 10, 1878, for t)300. BEST QUALITY! LO EST PRICKS I DIED. CnsNtHouAM At residence, 205 North High Btreet, Monday evening, Mrs. Nahoy Cunningham, aged fifty-one years. . The remains .will be taken to Cleveland on the 10 a. m. train, Tuesday. Friend- of the family are requested to meet at the residence at a quarter before nine o'c ock. New Adverttnements. PosYoflico Department. . MAIL LETIINGS. NOTICE TO COJVTllACTOKS PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE Contraut ofnee of tbis Department unttu p. m. of July 2i,1878,for carrying the mails of the United States upon the routes and according to the echeduleot arrival and departure specified by tbe Department, In tha.Stato of Ohio, from October 1, 1878, to June 3(1, 183(1. Lists of routes, with achedule. of arrivals and departures, instructions to bidders, with forme for proposals and bonds, and all other necessary information, will be mrniwhed upon application lo tlio Second Assistant Post-master General. D. M. KEY, Postmaster General. Washington, D. O., May 10, 1878. my!4 Itaw tlw ' Patent Burglar Proof And Ventilating Sash Lock, . CAN BE APPLIED TO NEW OR OLD sash. The only Lo-k that will ventilate a house and secure it from burglars. S6AG8NTs WANTED. A liberal discount to the trade. Manufactured and for sale, wholesale and retail, by Cor. ot High and Friend HI. , m;14 1 2 p tf COLUMBUS, O. M. & D. KRUMII, SUCCISSOBS TO MAliTIN KHUMM, UANUrAOTCREBB OT ' IRON FENCIMI No. an s. Fourtli St., myl4 6m OOLUMXITJ, O. MANTELS & GRvTEsf Of THE FAUOUS For which new letters patent have justben-ia-ened. The public are cautl-nod tagamet In-rrmemei.t8. See that tht nam of Bariian'a fat-mtiaon fide jams. '' C. S. RANKIN CO., Manufacturers of Mantt Grates and all kind of Wrought and Cast lion Work tor Buildinnx. Designs and Estimates furnished on application 1ST Pearl -tret, mvUeodly. CITS ClT$NJm.'VI . O. The Insana Asylum Hill be lust d to Ihe I'uMlc H EDVENDAT AFXRlVOON luyll 2t 1 4p THE OHIO STATE MBPICAL ASSOCIATION will hold Ub moetiDga In the City Hull, on. TueBdey, Wodnasday and Thursday, Miiy 14, 16 and ie. The Hessians will begin af3 o'clock p. m Tuesday By order of Committee of Arrangements. It NOTICK. THE UNDHRSIGISED HAS .men appointed and nuahflrd as aflsignee for the benefit of all creditors of the Monday Creek Iron Com any. Address Room 35 Pioneer Block, Columbus, Ohio, where all creditors aro required to present their claims WILLIAM V. McCRACKEN, Algnee. Columbus. O., May 13, 1S?3. myU Haw 3w George C. Bechrist, pl'M Before Matthlts Mar. v. t tin,J P. .Montgomery Johnson Virtue, deft, J tp , Franklin Co., U. I ,N THE 7th DAY OF MAY, 1878, SAID JUS- 9 TICE issued an order of at,tachme't tn the above action for the tiim of $lt5. Cause set for hearing June 3 J, 1678, 9 o'clock a. tn. myUdlt my25w2t THE DINING PARLORS or ma PARIS OF AMERICA, (Tbe Willie I root) No. 174 W. Fourtb. St., OIN CI IN IV A. XI, OPEN DAY to WIGHT. aEBTConveulent to Ballroada "Wi The Cheapest and Neatest Place in the cilf to get your Meals. COL. J. O. CIIAN13, myl3 tf Hp Jtranage v. Xj. O. ROOItEY, (successor to W. A. Haliony t Co.) KIHOVID TO 120 SOUTH HIGH STREET. Coulectloucry, Sints, Cigars, Anil Tobacco. FOREIGN & DOHEHTIC FRUITS A peetsl(jr. vSTionBlciiraenta Solicited. ap30 eod Im 1 4p Musical Festival ! EXCURSIffrTnCKETS To Cincinnati over Columbus, Springfield and Cincinnati, and Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis railroads at H-A.rj37" XXjX.THlfSk During the Fesl Irai Season. To be sold May 13 to 17. Good for roturn till 19th. my4 lot Uip GEO. n. ELLIOTT, Oculist Optician, 7 South High gtroet, Colnmbns, O. TBBATB ALL OPTICAL DEFECTS OF tbe Kye. Saectaolis fitted after scientific measurement of the defects. Office hours 9 to 12 a, m,, 2 to 5 p.m. mr30 d l4pSw ly